drill 0.6.0: the scratch repo, the candidate ref, and probe 2

drills/0.6.0.md

@@ -46,23 +46,74 @@ So this release owes the disposable-repo rehearsal, and this record is it.
 
 ## Where
 
-_Pending — the scratch repo's full `owner/name` and its disposal state as
+Disposable **private** repo `cndgrr/ceremony-drill-0.6.0`, created
-observed by this record's author are written here when the rehearsal runs._
+2026-08-05T00:02:58Z. It carries the `docs/CONSUMERS.md` release caller
+verbatim (`version-source: file`) over a fragment-mode fixture armed at
+`0.6.0-dev`: a preamble-only `CHANGELOG.md`, `changelog.d/README.md` plus
+one fragment, and a non-blank `drills/0.6.0.md`. The `release` label was
+created there before the first ceremony PR, per the guide's prerequisite.
+
+_Disposal state is written below when the rehearsal ends, as this record's
+author observes it — never as an intention._
 
 ## Candidate-ref deviation
 
-_Pending — the fork ref carrying the candidate tree and the canonical
+The pure consumer path cannot resolve this candidate's
-candidate SHA its `CEREMONY_SELF_REF` carriers are rewritten to._
+`CEREMONY_SELF_REF: "0.6.0"`: that tag is the one this release has not
+created yet. No `0.6.0` branch was created on `heavy-duty/ceremony`.
+
+The scratch caller instead pins `cndgrr/ceremony/.github/workflows/release.yml@drill/0.6.0`.
+That fork ref's parent is the canonical candidate SHA
+`fb8f8282a9e7b317d4d028f8e8da50501a882d14`, and its one additional commit
+(`775b4d1f6485ebdde924979ac2dce536643c6071`) rewrites all three
+`CEREMONY_SELF_REF` carriers — `release.yml`, `labels.yml`,
+`labels-sweep.yml` — to that same SHA. All runtime machinery in every probe
+below was therefore fetched from the 0.6.0 candidate tree.
+
+Commits pushed to the candidate after `fb8f828` are this record only; the
+release path (`.github/scripts/release-path.sh`) is byte-identical at the
+canonical SHA and at the final head.
 
 ## Probes
 
-_Pending — one row per probe, written from its run, never before it._
+One row per probe, written from its run. Runs are in
+`cndgrr/ceremony-drill-0.6.0`.
 
 | # | probe | run | result |
 |---|---|---|---|
 | 1 | merge-door ceremony | — | — |
-| 2 | mislabeled ordinary PR | — | — |
+| 2 | mislabeled ordinary PR | 30991634654 | ✅ green NOTICE no-op; no tag, no release |
 | 3 | bare-version PR without `release` | — | — |
 | 4 | re-run completed ceremony | — | — |
 | 5 | manual matching tag | — | — |
 | 6 | mismatched tag | — | — |
+
+### Probe 2 — a mislabeled ordinary PR
+
+PR #2 (`probe2b-mislabeled`) added one changelog fragment and touched no
+version. The `release` label was applied through
+`POST /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/2/labels` and confirmed present before
+the merge. The merge run decided row 1 of the table and published nothing:
+
+```text
+  VER: 0.6.0-dev
+  BASE_VER: 0.6.0-dev
+  RELEASED:
+  LABELED:
+NOTICE: the version '0.6.0-dev' is -dev and unchanged by this PR — release-flow work under the release label, not a ceremony. Nothing to publish.
+ceremony=no
+```
+
+`RELEASED` and `LABELED` are empty on purpose — the `-dev` rows never
+consult them, which is precisely why the label alone cannot ship anything.
+Notes, the nothing-exists assert, tag, artifact hook, publish and bump all
+skipped; `GET /tags` and `GET /releases` were both empty afterwards.
+
+An earlier merge (PR #1, run 30991571096) was intended as this probe but
+landed **unlabeled**: `gh pr edit --add-label` failed against this repo's
+projects-classic GraphQL surface, and the merge went ahead before the
+failure was read. That run is a green no-op too, but it is not evidence for
+this probe — an unlabeled ordinary merge proves less than a labeled one —
+so the probe was re-run as PR #2 with the label applied through the REST
+endpoint and verified before merging. Recorded here because the run exists
+in the repo's history and a reader will find it.